April 12, 2006

Stroller Locks: This Is How We Roll In Brooklyn

A reader at curbed.com snapped this photo of a fine-looking Maclaren Quest chained to the planter yesterday in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn.

What looks at first like street smarts--as any furniture-starved New Yorker can tell you, that's the "I'm throwing this out, but you can have it if you can haul it away" side of the sidewalk--turns out to involve all sorts of baby-hatin' intrigue and real estate envy. [And this is different from daily life in Brooklyn how, exactly?]

See, according the comments the Atlantic Avenue YMCA where the stroller was chained was recently the scene of some conflicts over the Y's new, draconian "Don't park that stroller in here!" regulations. And anyway, that Y is not even IN Cobble Hill, thank you very much. More like "Boerum Hill" or "Downtown Brooklyn" [where, I take it, strollerjacking is an everyday occurrence.]